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adjective

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Recent Examples of nerd
Noun
The lawyer called Way a performer who was essentially dressed in nerd cosplay throughout the trial. Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2025 Take it from a film critic: Even gawky beta nerds get smothered by their own internalized masculinity. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025 Wednesday night gives us a grudge match worth watching, and a sliding-doors moment to bask in and nerd out. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025 While those bottlings are common sights on both retail and bar shelves, the brand’s limited products have built a fervent following among passionate whiskey nerds. David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nerd
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerd
Noun
  • Tapping into the geek chic aesthetic, the star completed the look with a pair of black trousers held up by red, white and blue suspenders supported by her shoulders.
    Starr Bowenbank, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Flamboyant theater geek Ezra (Matthew Finlan) makes his shrieks sound especially dramatic.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And back in 2010, a MoMA retrospective featured a catalogue in which Wiseman’s work was praised by artists and intellectuals outside the documentary realm.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Iranian artists and intellectuals tend to rely on subtlety, embedding meaning within layers of metaphor and covert language: a necessity in a place where direct expression often comes at great risk.
    Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Our cerebral circuitry changes constantly—every day, new links are made amongst the 86 billion individual neurons in our heads, and old connections are allowed to fall away.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Challenging, cerebral, but without taking itself too seriously?
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 14 Apr. 2025

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“Nerd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerd. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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